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To Whom It May Concern:— 

At the 25 th Anniversary Dinner of the Harvard Class 
of 1 880 a man from the West recited — 

Here's to old Massachusetts, 

The home of the sacred cod, 
Where the Adamses vote for Douglas, 

And the Cabots walk with God. 

These lines struck the fancy of Dr. John C. Bossidy, 
Warren Chambers, 419 Boylston Street, Boston, and he 
wrote the following, v/hich he recited at the annual mid- 
winter dinner of the Alumni of the Holy Cross College: 

And this is good old Boston, 

The home of the bean and the cod. 

Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots 
And the Cabots talk only to God. 

A slightly different form of this auatrain reached me 
shortly after, and, writing to Dean F. S. Jones, of Yale 
University, in January, 1915, I cited it as something which 
I thought would interest him. Thinking 1 was .1.^ . *^^— , 
he immediately replied as follows: 

Yale College, 
New Haven, Conn. 
January 20, 1915. 
Dear **Sam" Bushnell: 

(Tear this up) 

A Toast on New Haven 
Lux et Veritas 

Here's to the town of New Haven, 
The home of the Truth and the Light, 

Where God talks to Jones 

In the very same tones. 
That he uses with Hadley and Dwight. 

Heavy charges on this, but they are cancelled. 

As ever your 

Fred S. Jones. 



Rev. S. C. Bushnell, 
1 1 Maple Street, 

Arlington, Mass. 

On the 3th of February, 1915, 1 attended the Second 
Annual Dinner of the Yale Alumni Association of the 
Naugatuck Valley at the Elton House in Waterbury, Conn., 
as one of the invited guests. When called upon to speak 
I said yes, — 

I come from good old Boston, 

The home of the bean and the cod. 
Where the Cabots speak only to the Lowells, 
And the Lowells speak only to God. 

I then said that 1 had recently heard these lines in Boston, 
and, writing to Dean Jones, sent a copy of them to him. 
He immediately came back with the following : 

Here's to the town of New Haven, 
The home of the Truth and the Light, 

Where God talks to Jones 

In the very same tones. 
That he uses with Hadley and Dwight. 

This brought down the house. It was accurately reported 
by the Waterbury American of February 6, 1915, and 
copied by newspapers all over the land. 

My present concern is that Dr. Bossidy should have the 
credit of the authorship of the lines which many have 
wrongly attributed to me. 

Samuel C. Bushnell, 

24 Ogden Street, 
New Haven, Conn. 



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